Al Qaeda

The Obama administration may ask overseas partners to enhance security measures at airports and is weighing whether to do the same here at home to address deepening concerns that terrorists in war-ravaged Syria are trying to develop a new generation of bombs that could be smuggled onto commercial planes.

A U.S. drone strike in southern Yemen killed at least nine suspected al-Qaida militants and three civilians Saturday, authorities said, as part of America's ongoing strikes in the country against what it considers the terror network's most dangerous local group.

The U.S. is pulling non-essential personnel from its embassy in Yemen and evacuating them out of the country following a threat by al-Qaida that's already temporarily shut down 19 American diplomatic posts.

An Al-Qaida-linked militant group claims it is holding seven Americans among 41 foreign hostages it has taken after occupying a natural gas complex deep in Algeria's southern desert near the Libyan border.

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